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How do I (22F) make my boyfriend (23M) understand that he can’t drop out of law school to be a full time podcaster.

Aug 4th, 2020
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  1. TL;DR is the title.
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  3. So. We’ve been together 2 years, I moved +1200 km to be with him in February and things were great until May when my boyfriend and his friends started a sports podcast.
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  5. At first it was just a hobby, my boyfriend is a big podcast nerd so it was really nice to see him do something he liked so much. But then he started getting more and more invested, and stopped watching his remote classes/studying to dedicate his full time to his podcast.
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  7. He is seriously considering dropping out of law school because he “can’t concentrate on both studying and running a podcast” and he “would rather do what he loves”. Which would be fine if what he loved wasn’t a 2 month old podcast with barely 30 listeners and the same content of at least a hundred other podcasts.
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  9. On top of that, his parents (who pay our rent) are threatening to cut us off if he goes through with this. He just says his parents are gonna take us in but I really don’t want to live with my parents in law and I’m an intern in a big expensive city. I can’t pay rent with my wages, can’t fuck off back to my town due to Covid restrictions and even if I could I don’t have the money.
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  11. So really, how do I convince him this is the worst idea ever? I’ve tried reasoning and explaining but he really believes they’re gonna break through. They’re good, but it’s just not easy to make a living out of these things.
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  13. EDIT: hey guys, just to make a few things clear...
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  15. First: He doesn’t hate law school, or at least he used not to. He’s dropped out of med school before, which he hated, and then got into law school. He seemed very interested in classes and things he learned so it would surprise me if he told me he hates law school.
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  17. Second: none of us have any school debt, school is public and free where we live so no worries about that part.
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  19. Third: believe it or not I am actually concerned about his future with or without me if he drops out again to pursue a dead end. I don’t care if I have to stay at my in laws until I can go back home or something (obviously I would like to try and fix the situation and not put myself in a worse spot) but really, it will suck for him in a few months when he realizes that he can’t make a living out of a podcast with such a limited public and that he threw a law degree and a relationship out over something he could have easily done as a hobby.
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  21. Fourth: I don’t really expect him to support me in the future (I have my own profession) and I don’t take his parents’ support now for granted. I know it’s a big favor and I will fuck right off back to my town if they no longer can, or want, to support me. But they only pay rent, I have no money whatsoever because all my wages and my savings went into setting up our home, electricity, water and groceries. I don’t expect to be supported, I just think he’s being extremely silly.
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